Sanketh Purwar

Sanketh Purwar is an experienced engineering manager currently working at Meta since January 2022. Prior to this role, Sanketh served as a software development manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS) from May 2018 to January 2022, where management of teams at EC2 focused on monitoring critical compute infrastructure. Earlier experience includes working as a software engineer at New York University, where significant contributions were made to redesign the backend architecture of nychighschoolapp.org, achieving a notable reduction in operational costs and performance improvement. Sanketh also held the position of team lead at Zilingo, overseeing the development of a seller app accessible in multiple countries and languages. Additionally, a tenure as a senior software engineer at Hewlett-Packard involved designing scalable REST APIs and implementing auto-scaling solutions. Sanketh holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from New York University.